Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen (Unabridged) Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen (Unabridged)

Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

The story of Australia’s most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration.

Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorer.

On 2 December 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision and Western Base on Queen Mary Land, he headed east on an extraordinary sledging trek with his companions, Belgrave Ninnis and Dr Xavier Mertz. After tragedy struck, Mawson found himself all alone, 160 miles from safety, with next to no food.

Peter FitzSimons tells the staggering tale of Mawson’s survival, despite all the odds, arriving back just in time to see his rescue ship disappearing over the horizon. He masterfully interweaves the stories of the other giants from the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration - Scott of the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen - to bring the jaw-dropping events of this bygone era dazzlingly back to life.

GENRE
Biography
NARRATOR
PE
Paul English
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
23:54
hr min
RELEASED
2011
28 November
PUBLISHER
Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
SIZE
742.6
MB

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